I don‘t think that “scam’” is unreasonable at all. Who on earth buys Nik to use presets? And they have managed to scrape together 5 “major releases” from that. The only new features since they acquired it are a handfull of completely pointless transplants from PhotoLab, duplicating functionality already in Nik, a re-skinned Viewpoint, a half-baked UI refresh and some presets. They appear to be milking it for all its worth, by appearences investing more in marketing than software development. I get everyone may feel different - but you'd at least expect everything to get the makeover, not just certain modules Last time they updated silver with a new UI that looked a bit better (YMMV), and this time only two of the remaining got the same treatment - there's not a lot in this version, and whilst choice is there, it's still the barest of upgrade levels to qualify as a version update. Rinsing people with this level of update is a fair view, even if not everyone's. In this case you are not forced to upgrade and your current version will continue to work just fine.įurthermore, DXO offer a trial version so you could try without any purchase whatsoever. If DXO were to take the money and then not give you the SW that would be a Scam. We get a small commission for purchases made through these links, which helps run this site.To be honest I think your thread title is tending towards clickbait. Note that this post contains paid affiliate links. If you want to discuss anything you’ve read here on my website, or saw on my youtube channel, or if you want to share images you’ve created using any of my techniques or presets, then I’ve started a new Facebook Group just for that. If you’d rather not use Patreon, but still want to say thanks or help, then you can feed my caffeine habit and buy me a coffee via PayPal with a one off donation to my PayPal tip jar.

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